conclusions the results of this research have important implications regarding the attention of students’ counselors to meta-cognitive dimensions in order to prevent students’ tendency for addiction. results the rate of students’ addiction potential tendency can be predicted by having characteristics of their meta-cognition. it also appeared that among the five parameters of meta-cognition, the...

In an attempt to explain the lack of consensus that emerged from a review of the extant literature on the performance implications of cultural differences in mergers and acquisitions [M&A], meta-analyses were conducted for three categories of performance measures: stock market-based measures, accounting-based measures, and socio-cultural integration outcomes. As hypothesized, meta-analytic find...

Action detection and temporal segmentation of actions in videos are topics of increasing interest. While fully supervised systems have gained much attention lately, full annotation of each action within the video is costly and impractical for large amounts of video data. Thus, weakly supervised action detection and temporal segmentation methods are of great importance. While most works in this ...

Agent’s meta-reasoning is a computational process that implements agent’s capability to reason on a higher level about another agent or a community of agents. There is a potential for meta-reasoning in multi-agent systems. Meta-reasoning can be used for reconstructing agents’ private knowledge, their mental states and for prediction of their future courses of action. Meta-agents should have the...

This paper presents a web-based system that supports students in their learning of phonetic transcription and production. It allows students to create their own exercises from an integrated database of recordings, according to their specific learning needs. Every recording in the system has been meta-tagged. For example, a cardinal vowel will have, among others, the tags ‘vowel’ and ‘cardinal’....

helicobacter pylori infection is a common health problem related to many gastrointestinal disorders. this study aims to estimate the total and age specific prevalence of helicobacter pylori infection in iran. we systematically reviewed all national and international databases and finally identified 21 studies were eligible for meta-analysis. each of them were assigned a quality score using stro...

background: the aim of the study was assessment of defaults and conducted meta-analysis of the efficacy of single-dose oral albendazole against t. trichiura infection. methods: we searched pubmed, isi web of science, science direct, the cochrane central register of controlled trials, and who library databases between 1983 and 2014. data from 13 clinical trial ar­ticles were used. each article w...

conclusions the results of the study showed a high prevalence of domestic violence in iran, which requires the adoption of appropriate measures and the initiation of effective interventions by the legal authorities. these measures and interventions should aim to determine the causes of domestic violence and to develop ways of controlling and reducing this destructive phenomenon. results based o...

background: obsessive patients are distressed by intrusive thoughts, which are related to unreal threats. these patients feel that they are responsible for harming themselves and others. while controlling worry and meta-cognitive beliefs, the present study aimed at comparing the responsibility attitudes in obsessive compulsive patients with those in normal subjects to determine whether the diff...